I live in a townloft that I am renting from a nice couple… I believe this is their first rental property.
I can tell because whenever something breaks or malfunctions, they don’t use the same maintenance guys, or handymen… For instance, I had a leaky faucet, and they contacted a handyman to maintenance it, then when the flap in my toilet broke, they used a unusual handyman.
If I had a rental property, I would use the same repair guy to maintenance the issues that come up. I would make sure that I have a handyman for general problems, a plumber for major plumbing issues, and an HVAC repairman to maintenance the unit weekly. I can’t tell them how to best manage their rental property, however I believe if they keep hiring random repairmen, they will eventually run into some major issues… Especially for something as technical as HVAC maintenance where it requires skills and experience to tackle the issues, but plus, if you use the same HVAC repairman, he would become typical with the unit, which means he would be able to diagnose the problems faster than a up-to-date serviceman would! So far, there has only been one maintenance done on the HVAC unit, and there should be a maintenance busy soon. I am hoping that it’s the same repairman from the last service, but from what I have experienced from my proprietor, that might not be the case. I can only hope that if it is in fact a up-to-date HVAC repairman that he or she does as nice of a job as the first one that they hired.